5th floor Common room, Saturday morning

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River sat perched on the couch. Not only wasn't Simon around, there was also a lack of kitchen staff to make her breakfast. She'd had to improvise, which had resulted in cookies and ice cream. That wasn't too bad although perhaps a little low on nutritional value and high on sugar.

There was also a lack of books, which bothered her even more. The art books were interesting, and her roommates fashion magazines did give her some insight into cultural values, but overall, River was bored. And also, why did she have a roommate? Her parents could afford to give her a single room. Not that she minded the other girl - and she'd been asleep - but other girls usually minded her. And boys. Most kida her age did, in fact.

She had pulled out her notebook and was scribbling something resembling a plan for the day.

[Open, of course.]

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[nadiathesaint]

"I think we'd need a 'dult to make a big breakfast."

Furrball gave Pup a look of "omg how do we get away?!" Nadia gave Furrball a big hug.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter pulled the fridge open and peered inside. "Eggs. You just put them in a pan, right?"

He pulled out the eggs and a jug of milk and put both on the counter. "I've seen my mum do it."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia found a box of chocolate frosted sugar bombs, made herself a giant mixing bowl full, then climbed up onto the counter to watch Walter. "I don't have a mum. But my Sofia says that sometimes eggs have salmon-nilly."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Salmon-nilly? Is that like pickalilli?"

Rummaging yielded a preposterously large frying pan. "Can I have some of your cereal?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I dunno, what's pickalilli?" Nadia drummed her heels on the cabinets. "Okay. But I want some of your eggs if that's okay. And if they don't have any salmon-nilly."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Sauce. I think." Walter fiddled with the stove knobs until the right one turned on, full heat, and plopped the pan down on it.

His attempts at breaking eggs into the pan ended up with a fair bit of shell joining the eggs.

[nadiathesaint]

Sofia always said that the crust of the bread was the best part. That meant the shell of the egg had to be the best part, too, right?

"Oh. No, Salmon-nilly makes you all sick. Like this, bleargh!" And Nadia went for the cute but horribly disgusting tactic that only small children can do, and dribbled half-chewed sugar bombs down her chin.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked over at her and made what was supposed to be a disgusted face, but was horribly ruined by his grin.

"Let me try the salmon-nilly." Walter grabbed a spoon and took a bite of sugar bombs.

"Yech! Salmon-nilly!" He mirrored her chewed food dribble. "Now we're going to diiiiiiieeeee!"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was giggling like a little fiend. "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! We are too young an' too pretty to die!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Dieeeee! And then we'll be salmon-nilly zombies and we'll walk around going 'oooooooh, we're the salmon-nilly zombies and we're gonna eat you up!'"

[nadiathesaint]

"Zombies don't talk, they go 'oooooooooooooo' and walk around like this." Nadia held her arms out in demonstration. "An' then they beat you up."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Nuh uh. Salmon-nilly zombies talk! And they eat eggs and people!"

[nadiathesaint]

"An' are pretty?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Uh...."

Telling girls they were pretty ended up in kisses.

[nadiathesaint]

"If they're not pretty, I don' wanna be one."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Uh...."

Walter looked around for someone to answer the question for him.

No such luck.

"You'll be pretty to other salmon-nilly zombies?"

[nadiathesaint]

"That's not the same as bein' pretty."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter hadn't given much thought to pretty. "Why not?"

[nadiathesaint]

"'Cause if they're all ugly and they all think they're pretty they're still all ugly!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Who says? What if they all think they're pretty and you're ugly?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Then they're dumb an' I don't wanna be one, anyway."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Oh."

She had a point.

And he had a big pan full of burning eggs.

"Uh..."

[nadiathesaint]

"Your salmon-nilly eggs are burning," Nadia pointed out helpfully.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Oh crumbs!" Walter pulled the pan off the heat and realized that his mum had usually stirred things around a bit.

"Um... some of it looks okay."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had now managed to eat almost half of her cereal. "That's okay. You should get to eat it all 'cause you cooked it."